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1942

Crime fiction in collaboration with Bioy Casares. Presents El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan for the Premio Nacional de Literatura; when it is not awarded the prize Sur publishes a special issue on Borges.

Locations

Borges continues to live in the apartment at Quintana 263.

Historical Context

President Ortiz resigns and Castillo becomes president. Foreign Ministers of the Americas meet in Rio de Janeiro, where the U.S. seeks support against the Axis. Argentina opposes US agenda and maintains neutrality. The US embassy increases contacts with pro-democracy local opposition groups. Radical Party leaders Marcelo T. de Alvear and Roberto Ortiz die. Former president and conservative leader Justo dies.

[Bustos Domecq is the first of the various pseudonyms used by Borges and Bioy Casares for their works in collaboration. With a preface by one of the fictional characters, Gervasio Montenegro. Later included in Obras completas en colaboración.]